H. G. Wells Quotes
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
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It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
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If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
